It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Anacharsis
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
Dale Carnegie
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Lasch, Christopher
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Voltaire
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian
Man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily"true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about."
C.S. Lewis